by Susan | Jun 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 18, 1840 The Oberlin Non-Resistance Society was formed at the Ohio college by students who believed “that the Gospel of Jesus Christ inculcates the duty of peace and good-will.” They rejected all use of violence even in the name of duty to country. “We must...
by Susan | Jun 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 17, 1838 The Cherokee Nation began the 1,200-mile forced march later known as the Trail of Tears. Their removal from ancestral land in the southeast U.S. had been ordered by President Andrew Jackson as the result of a treaty signed by a small minority of the...
by Susan | Jun 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 16, 1976 South African police opened fire on black students peacefully protesting the requirement to learn Afrikaans, the language of the small white majority that enforced the racially separatist regime known as apartheid. Neither black nor colored (other...
by Susan | Jun 15, 2015 | Monuments
This memorial statue, dedicated to the victims of a March 13, 1988 chemical attack on the Iraqi Kurds of Halabja, was opened in the Hague in 2014, in the garden of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The monument, inspired by a photograph...
by Susan | Jun 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 15, 1215 Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, or “Great Charter.” The document, a peace treaty between John and his barons, guaranteed that the king would respect feudal rights and...
